The TESS space telescope has discovered a new representative of exoplanets with ultra-short orbital periods. It was the hot super-Earthwolf 327b, whose iron core occupied…
Hypothesis about ocean planet K2-18b refuted
arXiv: Planet K2-18b is a surfaceless mini-NeptuneAstronomers at NASA’s Ames Research Center have disproved the hypothesis that exoplanet K2-18b is a Hycean, a planet with…
Physicists have discovered the reversibility of matter time – glass molecules undergo temporary vibrations
Humanity has learned to develop highly accurate clocks that work perfectly over millions of years, but we still don’t know what time is. There are…
Scientists discover that tidal destruction of stars by black holes is happening everywhere
Almost all of the 100 or so cases of tidal destruction of stars by black holes known to science were recorded in galaxies where the…
The movement of gas around a supermassive black hole in a distant quasar helps determine its mass
Astronomers used the ground-based interferometer VLTI to measure the mass of a supermassive black hole in a quasar that took 11 billion years for light…
Star-feeding black holes discovered
Astronomers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered about two dozen black holes feeding on nearby stars. The discovery is reported in a paper…
‘Hungry’ quasars discovered in the early universe
A state-of-the-art VLT instrument has made the first direct measurement of the mass of a distant supermassive black hole whose light has been reaching us…
Something is moving: Scientists compare two photos of a black hole and notice a strange object
Credit: Astronomie / EHT Colloboration We are talking about the very black hole that became famous as the first hole photographed. A year after receiving…
Accretion bursts discovered in young variable stars
arXiv: Accretion burst discovered in young variable star Sgr V1741 Astronomers have discovered an accretion burst that occurred around the young variable star Sgr V1741.…
A new window into the universe’s past opens: James Webb discovers dozens of ancient quasars
James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal secrets of how black holes formed in the early universe James’ Webb Space Telescope is helping to understand the…